'Muscle teacher' causes fever on social networks in China

Yang Xuemei, 31, who works at the Shenzhen campus of the Harbin Institute of Technology in southern China, started posting videos of herself working out in the gym and showing off her muscles as an "advertisement" to recruit new students on September 30.

In a video, Yang said: "Hello my future students, your PhD advisor is instructing you on how to do pull-ups with a 15 kg barbell."

Yang (who lives in Sichuan Province, southwest China) calls himself an "intellectual shrew" and a "Sichuan Tyrannosaurus Rex".

Yang joined Harbin Institute of Technology in 2022, after completing his postdoctoral research at ETH Zurich in Switzerland.

Yang said she was inspired by her father, who was a fitness enthusiast since she was a child. She started exercising while studying in the United States. She suffered from anxiety and memory loss due to the overwhelming academic pressure of her PhD studies, but exercise helped her overcome "dark and painful times".

“Working out is hard, but it helps the human body release endorphins and dopamine, which give you joy,” she said.

“Charming Chemistry,” which introduces the chemical reactions that occur in the body during exercise, is one of Yang’s featured elective courses. She also encourages women in class and online to abandon unhealthy thin beauty stereotypes and pursue lifestyles that emphasize fitness and well-being.

Yang is famous for his workout clips showing off his muscles.

Yang shares on social media that she works out seven days a week. She also offers to be a free personal trainer for her future students, in addition to her chemistry tutoring. But she says she has never met a student who enjoys working out.

Yang has attracted 25,000 followers online, many of whom express their admiration for her. Many chemistry students have also flocked to her account out of curiosity, wanting to sign up for courses.

“I can get a tutor and a personal trainer at the same time. How cool!” one person joked.

Her university records show that she graduated from Nanjing University in Jiangsu Province, eastern China, in 2015 and obtained her PhD in chemistry from Texas A&M University in the US in 2020. Her research interests include organometallic chemistry (metal organic chemistry).

(Source: ZNews)

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